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Men Advocating Change (MAC) present White Ribbon Week April 14 to 18. The purpose of this week is for men to advocate ending physical, sexual and verbal violence against women. Wearing a white ribbon symbolizes a man's personal pledge never to commit, condone nor remain silent about violence against women. This week's goals also include educating about sexual assault, an issue that suffers from a serious lack of attention on college campuses.

Professor of Chemistry George Shields gave an invited lecture at the University of Maryland, College Park, on April 16. His talk, "An Overview of Chemical Physics Research at Hamilton College: Accurate pKa calculations in aqueous solution, progress and challenges," was part of a series on interdisciplinary problems in chemistry and physics.

Hamilton College President Eugene M. Tobin has accepted an invitation to join the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as a senior advisor during the 2003-04 academic year.

Hamilton alumnus and award-winning producer David Grubin '65 returned to the Hill to visit Professor of English Pat O'Neill's "Art of the Cinema" class on April 17. Grubin presented one of his documentaries and discussed it with the class. Among his recent productions are The Secret Life of the Brain for PBS; Napoleon; and Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided. Grubin’s biographies of American presidents for "The American Experience" on PBS have been widely acclaimed. His five-part series for PBS, Healing and the Mind, with Bill Moyers, has won many awards. Grubin’s film about Secretary General of the United nations, Kofi Annan: Center of the Storm, aired recently on PBS.

Associate Professor of English Edward Wheatley gave the keynote lecture at the 24th Annual Medieval Forum in Plymouth, N.H., on April 11. It was titled "'Thus taughte me my dame': Early Education In and Out of the Classroom."

At a gala celebration April 2 in New York City, Hamilton College trustees and other close friends announced the establishment of The Eugene M. Tobin Distinguished Professorship in honor of the college’s president.

Vivyan Adair, assistant professor of women's studies and director of the ACCESS Project, will lead the Think Tank discussion on "Poverty and the Promise of Higher Education Today." Think Tank will take place at noon, Friday, April 11 in Kirner-Johnson room 221.

Assistant Professor of English Steven Yao will speak at Harvard University on "'Dent those Reprobates, Romulus and Remus': Lowell, Zukofsky and Legacies of Modernist Literary Translation." His talk on April 18 was part of the Modernism Seminar Series sponsored by Harvard's English department.

Maurice Isserman, William R. Kenan Professor of History, spoke at Princeton University at "On Top of the World: An Everest Anniversary Conference" on April 12. Isserman's talk, "Camelot on the Khumbu: Kennedy Liberalism and the American Triumph," was part of the weekend conference covering topics on the history of mountaineering and Everest.

This year's Edwin B. Lee Lecture was presented by two prominent speakers, Wan Yanhai, AIDS activist and founder of Aizi Action Project in China; and Bates Gill, an expert on US-China relations and chair in China studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. The speakers addressed "China's Looming AIDS Crisis."